Multiple timescales of joint remembering in the crafting of a memory-scaffolding tool during collaborative design

Lucas M. Bietti, John Sutton

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    Abstract

    Joint remembering relies on the successful interweaving of multiple cognitive, linguistic, bodily, social and material resources, anchored in specific cultural ecosystems. Such systems for joint remembering in social interactions are composed of processes unfolding over multiple but complementary timescales which we distinguish for analytic purposes with the terms ‘coordination’, ‘collaboration’, ‘cooperation’, and ‘culture’, so as better to study their interanimation in practice. As an illustrative example of the complementary timescales involved in joint remembering in a real-world activity, we present a micro-qualitative analysis of an interactional sequence in which two members of a fourperson team of video designers crafted a memory- scaffolding tool. In order to find the temporal structure of the crafting of the memory-scaffolding tool, we used software for pattern recognition. The analysis suggests that coordination, collaboration, cooperation, and culture reveal complementary aspects of interacting to remember, which should be considered as complex phenomenon unfolding at multiple interanimating timescales.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)60-65
    Number of pages6
    JournalProceedings of the EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science (EAPCogSci2015)
    Volume1419
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    EventEuroAsianPacific joint conference on Cognitive Science - Torino, Italy
    Duration: 25 Sept 201527 Sept 2015

    Keywords

    • joint remembering
    • timescales
    • coordination
    • cooperation
    • collaboration
    • culture
    • t-pattern
    • ethnography
    • design studio

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